Francis Quarles' Emblems and : Hieroglyphics of the life of man, modernized : in four books

by: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644

Publication date: 1773

Topics: Emblems --Early works to 1800, Emblem books, English --Great Britain --England --18th century, Emblem books --Great Britain --England --18th century

Publisher: London : Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespear’s Head, in Pater-Noster-Row

Collection: emblem; americana

Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: English

Advertisement on p.[192] for The Christian’s dictionary ... by the Rev. John Fleetwood (published 1775).

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois, Q10

Hieroglyphics of the life of man.

ESTC N31926

P. 164 misnumbered ’154’.

Date from McGeary & Nash; ESTC puts date at 1766, based on bookseller’s address.

88 numbered and 2 unnumbered woodcut emblems; emblematic woodcut front. and sub-title page (for ’Hieroglyphikes’)

Cipher bookplate: WJ [?]: owl on open book showing lines by Emerson: "Life loiters at the book’s first page ..."